{"id":1197,"date":"2011-07-17T13:10:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T20:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2014-02-19T13:18:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T21:18:17","slug":"joe-johnston-fett-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/film-tv\/joe-johnston-fett-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Johnston sets sights on Boba Fett feature film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/screenrant.com\/captain-america-director-joe-johnston-boba-fett-movie-rothc-123936\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/captainamerica.marvel.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Captain America: The First Avenger<\/a> director Joe Johnston\u00a0revealed some interesting information for fans of Boba Fett.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1198\" title=\"movie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/movie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"145\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">According to the article, Johnston has hopes of convincing his former mentor, George Lucas, into letting him direct a feature film solely about the character of Boba Fett.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;&#8230;I\u2019m trying to get George to make a feature based on Boba Fett. I would like to [direct it], it would be a lot of fun.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As many are aware, Johnston is often\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/multimedia\/galleries\/displayimage.php?pos=-523\">credited<\/a> as the designer of Boba Fett. His work, along with Ralph McQuarrie&#8217;s concept art, is the genesis of why a site like the Boba Fett Fan Club exist. Some might also be aware that Johnston&#8217;s previous work includes fan favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/fettipedia\/The_Rocketeer_(1991)\">The Rocketeer<\/a>, which also featured an adventurous, jetpack-wearing protagonist.<\/p>\n<p>If his most recent directorial endeavor is a success, perhaps Johnston is the man to bring Star Wars back to the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>To join our discussion on this news, leave a comment below or post in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/boards\/post\/97431\/#p97431\">thread on our message board<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent interview with Captain America: The First Avenger director Joe Johnston\u00a0revealed some interesting information for fans of Boba Fett....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}